Kristi Noem took time to explain herself following a controversial visit to El Savador's notorious mega-prison last week. In a new interview with Fox News' Special Report host, Bret Baier, on Monday night,

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended a video she took while touring a mega prison in El Salvador last week, arguing that it was an image people needed to see for transparency—and to scare those in the country illegally.

People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside their cells at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.